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We’ve all done it. You spot someone in your industry absolutely smashing it online, so you start posting what they post, in the style they post it, quietly hoping a bit of their magic rubs off on you. Here’s the thing though. Copying what everyone else is doing is the fastest way to disappear into the noise. Personal branding was never about blending in with whatever’s trending this week. It’s about leaning into the thing that makes you, you. Your point of view. Your quirks. The way you explain something that nobody else explains quite the same way. Because that’s what does the heavy lifting. When you speak from your actual point of difference, the right people start to feel like you’re talking directly to them. Not to everyone. To them. And that’s the bit most people miss entirely. It was never about how many followers you’ve racked up. It’s about the impact you make on the ones who were always meant to find you. So before you copy the next big account, ask yourself one question: does this sound like me, or does it just sound like them?
In case you missed it, I built something a few years back that plenty of people thought wouldn’t work. I’m Kate. Proud westie since 2009, brand strategist by trade. And the founder of Women of the West. Here’s the honest version. I saw a gap in our community. Women craving real connection with nowhere obvious to go, local businesses doing it tough, a whole part of Melbourne’s west that deserved a room of its own. I knew it needed to exist. So I backed myself and built it. Not with funding. Not with an organisation behind me. Not with a committee signing off on every decision. Just me, a handful of women who believed in the idea, and a lot of nights doing the unglamorous grassroots work nobody sees. It was completely self-funded. It was completely from scratch. And for a long stretch it was just stubborn faith that I was onto something real. Here’s how I know it worked. These days I stand at our events and hear women repeat the messaging back to me. The words I’ve been saying for two years, the ones I had to fight to be heard at the start, are now the words this community uses to describe itself. That’s the moment it stops being my idea and becomes ours. If you build something you believe in and back yourself when no one else will, eventually the right people find you. I’m living proof. To every woman who’s been part of WOW, thank you for making the thing I imagined real. Thanks to @debstembridgephotography for capturing some of these photos #WomenOfTheWest #MelbourneWest #Yarraville #Footscray #RealConnection
Being copied is information. If you’ve built something worth building, it will happen. With your words, your offers, your aesthetic, sometimes the whole concept. The instinct is to fight it. Out them. Take it personally. The better move is usually to keep going. Originals stay ahead because they don’t stop. Copies struggle because they’re working off a snapshot of who you used to be. By the time their version is out, you’ve moved on. The fact that someone is studying you is the signal. It means you’re worth studying. Use it as fuel.
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